Donald Cerrone Signs 8-Fight Contract Extension with UFC

The popular “Cowboy” recently signed an eight-fight extension with
the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Sherdog.com confirmed the news
with a UFC official following an initial report from
MMAjunkie.com. Exact terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Cerrone would have had one fight remaining on his previous deal
following his second-round technical knockout victory over Rick Story
this past weekend at UFC 202. However, unlike recent Bellator
signee Rory
MacDonald, the Jackson-Wink MMA representative is staying
put.

One of the Las Vegas-based promotion’s most active fighters,
Cerrone took to Twitter on Thursday to hint that his next Octagon
appearance may be in the near future:

Cerrone has competed 22 times for the UFC since coming over from
the now-defunct World Extreme Cagefighting promotion in 2011. The
33-year-old Colorado native has put together a three-fight winning
streak at welterweight, besting Story, Patrick Cote
and Alex
Oliveira in succession.